"Meritorious work in the world, blessings for thousands of years!"

It is not an exaggeration to praise the Chancellor of the Exchequer Zhang Kangren during the First World War, through the hard implementation of the "Monetary Metal Control Act" within the empire, Zhang Kangren held 55,172 tons of silver for the Central Reserve Bureau before World War I, with a market value of about 273 million pounds, accounting for more than 75% of the total amount of silver in China at that time, throughout the early stage of World War I, Zhang Kangren continued to sell central silver to stabilize the price of silver in the international market, in 1917, with the large-scale participation of the empire in the war, The international silver price soared, and Zhang Kangren chose to decisively sell off the silver at the end of 1918 and use it to purchase the national bonds of the Entente countries such as Britain, France, the United States, and Russia and cash in gold, so as to fully adjust the gold standard monetary system.

In addition, in the early stages of the war, in order to offset the risk of the war leading to an increase in the price of silver, the Central Reserve Board used a large amount of monetary reserves to purchase stocks and assets in the military industry, and simply bought low and sold these assets high during the war, from which the Reserve Board made a profit of nearly 170 million pounds.

In January 1919, after the end of World War I, the Reichsbank, on the basis of holding 2,714 tons of gold (Tsarist gold could not be announced, it would not be recognized, and it had not been recognized back then, so to this day, Russia is still very ruthless to the book, which is called retribution), not only repaid the debts owed by the empire to foreign countries, but also held a total of 1.183 billion pounds of national debt of Britain, France, the United States and Russia, and the proportion of French and Russian debts accounted for half of them.

Without World War I and Chancellor of the Exchequer Chang Kang-in, the empire would have had little chance of switching from the silver standard to the gold standard with such a large scale of national assets and such low gold reserves, and military spending in World War I would have been extremely difficult.

Today's empire has not only successfully transformed into a gold standard country, with the largest currency reserve ratio among major powers, even higher than that of the United States, but also the third largest creditor in the world, and the Central Reserve Board has made more than 450 million pounds in profits from the sale of silver and military industrial assets and materials at high prices, which basically offset all the military expenditures of the empire in World War I.

The reason why the empire was able to maintain extremely high military spending during the Sino-Soviet war was also entirely due to the good condition of the central treasury and the Central Reserve Board.

After the end of the Sino-Soviet War, the Imperial Central Treasury would have received more than £4.1 billion in basic reparations and debt repayments from foreign countries, a figure that was even more staggering after converting interest, with an average repayment period of 35 years, yielding £135 million per year in reparations, equivalent to 1/2 of the central government's revenue in 1919.

This is only one aspect, and if we add to the German and Russian assets confiscated by the Reich during the war, the actual income of the central government axe is even more staggering, of which the railway alone has confiscated more than 340 million pounds of assets.

Zhang Kangren served as the central finance minister for ten years, and the empire also jumped from a poor country to one of the three richest countries in the world.

The reason why Song Biao did not plan to elect Zhang Kangren as the third prime minister of the empire was because he knew in his heart that Zhang Kangren's achievements had water, and there was still a lot of water.

The past decade has been arguably the true golden decade of Chinese history, and the empire has not necessarily been able to owe it entirely to Chancellor Teo Kang-jen, nor to Prime Minister Tang Siu-yee.

Song Biao didn't say that he wanted to come out to grab credit, but as an emperor, he was always not bound by party, region, and other relationships, and it can be said that he was truly eclectic in selecting and appointing talents.

In the past ten years, Song Biao relied on his power to discipline and govern a large number of former officials and local officials such as Yuan Shikai, Xu Shichang, Lu Runqi, Liang Dunyan, Tang Jingchong, Sun Baoqi, and Zhang Xiluan, and also exceptionally reused Yang Zhaolin, Gu Delin, Xiang Xiang, Zhu Guangtao, Wang Zhaotong, Yang Lianchen, Wu Naichen, Yang Shoutong, Sun Changrun, and other Yigan Xuantong study tour jinshi and Guangxu economic special science scholars.

Yuan Jinkai, Wang Wenjiang, Wang Shuhan, Jin Mingding, Guan Haiqing and other local officials in the northeast, Tang Shaoyi, Zhang Kangren, Ouyang Geng, Cai Tinggan, Tang Guoan and other young children studying in the United States, and revolutionaries of the Liberation Society, the League Association, and the Communist Advancement Association, Song Biao all reused them, and even Lao Naixuan, Xu Renjing, Guo Yucai, Yu Xingsan, such well-known scholars and reformist officials who were not reused by the previous dynasty, and even Liang Shiyi, Cao Rulin, who were famous masters of power and magic in the Beiyang era, as long as they have a suitable position, appropriate ability and administrative experience, Song Biao uses them all.

The reason why Song Biao can have such a bearing and open-mindedness is precisely because he is the emperor, and the constraints he is subject to party and other relations are the lowest.

It is with such a foundation, with the all-out efforts of Tang Shaoyi's cabinet, that the empire was able to carry forward the past and forge ahead into the future, not only smoothly through the chaos of the alternation of the two dynasties, but also leapfrog into the ranks of powerful countries with the support of foreign countries and the stimulation of the First World War.

It is precisely with these ten years of golden years, and relying on the prestige of the dynasty accumulated by the Sino-Chinese Xinhai War, the First World War, and the Sino-Soviet War, that the empire can officially enter a new era, completely shake off the shadow of the previous dynasty, and become a new and vigorous new empire.

Heroes make the times, and the times create heroes.

This is an era of mutual influence, and today's empire is rapidly entering a period of great talent, whether in finance, diplomacy, legal affairs, local governance, or military affairs.

Under their side, the Northeast University of Political Science and Law, the Central Imperial University and other universities, as well as the new generation of young people in the imperial period who have returned from studying abroad, are constantly entering the political axe, and in Zhili, the three eastern provinces, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Huguang provinces, early graduates of the Northeast University of Political Science and Law have begun to appear at the level of the governor.

In this smooth transition and the alternation of generations, the empire gradually got rid of the shadow of the old bureaucracy of the previous dynasty and already had the foundation of governing the country according to law, and was now moving towards a transition period from the rule of man to the rule of law.

Compared with this, Song Biao at this time at least dared to say that he may not lack much talent for governing the country, and there may not be many talents for governing the country, and there is still no shortage of talents for governing provinces, governments, and counties.

Compared with Europe and the United States, everyone has their own strengths, whether it is the Republic of China or the empire, the Chinese in this period may not really lose too much to foreigners, it is precisely the strengths of the holdings, the inch is short.

The stability of the country lies in the military and administration, and the stability of the military and administration lies in the smooth flow of the system, and the talent from low to high, how to absorb and replenish, and how to withdraw, must have a set of effective systems, so that the country can be truly stable.

The source of military personnel in the empire is the military academies and academies of the whole country, and there are three types of training and selection of administrative talents: public examination, party selection, and negotiation and appointment.

The "public examination" is based on specialized education, and is admitted by various political axe organs through public examinations, and the basic subjects are tested in the comprehensive papers of national language, foreign language, history, politics plus mathematics, physics and chemistry, and then two or three professional courses are examined.

The "party election" is directly recruited by the parties in each university, and as a talent reserve, it starts from the internal affairs of the party and government, and the party appoints and arranges training according to the conditions.

"Appointment by discussion" means that local governors at the provincial and government levels can directly hire officials from among the councilors, and the informal establishment, similar to cabinet officials, will automatically leave office at the end of their term of office, and after the provincial governor is replaced, he has the right to terminate the contract of the elected and party-elected officials and rearrange new candidates.

Since the establishment of the empire, the imperial examination mechanism has been established throughout the country, and since then, it has gradually developed two kinds of open cooking mechanisms, party election and negotiation and appointment, and improved the promotion and selection system of imperial officials.

On this basis, in another twenty years, the empire will surely enter a period of greater stability in terms of administrative governance.

Song Biao is very confident in this.

Twenty years later, World War II began.

He had nothing to fear.

After Tang Shaoyi and the three left, Song Biao stood alone in front of the window of the office and smoked a cigar in silence, thinking about what would happen twenty years later, World War II was very important, if World War II could not be won, the empire's 18.9 million square kilometers of territory at this time would be lost in World War I.

Twenty years later, I am afraid that it will already be the age of nuclear weapons, but this is only a guess, and it is very probable or even normal that nuclear weapons will not be developed during the war, so we cannot pin our hopes on this.

As the emperor, Song Biao does not need to think too much about internal affairs and economic matters, he has already built this mechanism and stage, naturally there are suitable people to do these things, what he wants to ensure is that the military is strong, enough to make the empire reject the navy in the east and the Soviet and German armies in the west.

If the Soviet-German alliance became a given thing because of the greed of the empire and the forcible occupation of territory, Song Biao categorically could not expect the French alliance to block the Soviet-German iron cavalry, and it would be very good if it could hold out for a month, and then Germany would expand to the Balkans and the Middle East, the Soviet Union would counterattack Central Asia and Siberia, and the two-front army would press the border, and China would only fight to the death.

If Ben landed from the Korean Peninsula and headed north, the empire would really be attacked on three sides, and the northeastern industrial base might not be able to hold on.

What about being attacked on three sides?

Song Biao did not intend to divide their possible cooperation through a political alliance, because it was impossible for him to cooperate with Hitler, and there could be no real chance of cooperation with the Soviet Union, let alone with him.

In short, this is not a problem that can be solved by politics and diplomacy, as long as China becomes stronger and stronger, when the Soviet Union cannot bear China, when Germany is so strong that it must be afraid of China's attitude towards France's allies, and when it is so strong that it says that there is no way out, the three villain countries of the Soviet Union and Germany will definitely unite.

Or in that sentence, what about being attacked on three sides?

Isn't it the time for World War I to establish China's hegemony in the world?

There is real opportunity in crisis, crisis, danger.

Song Biao doesn't think that such a situation will be so terrifying, as long as you start working hard now and actively make all preparations now, China can meet such a challenge and defeat all enemies.

Before a real crisis, the Chinese will not be afraid, and before the real opportunity, the Chinese will not give up.

As long as all the Chinese stand up, there is no enemy that cannot be defeated.

Song Biao was very confident, and he firmly believed that as long as the empire could really take "honoring the virtuous and king, respecting the law and loving the people and hegemony" as the foundation of the country, the foundation of the spirit of the Chinese, the mountains and rivers of 8,000 miles, the accumulation of 5,000 years, and the 40,000,000 compatriots, the revival of the freedom of the Spring and Autumn Period, the revival of the Xiongtao of the Warring States, the revival of the martial arts of the Qin and Han Dynasties, and the revival of the spirit of the Tang and Song Dynasties, why is China not strong?

With the restoration of China as the foundation, and then the integration of Western studies, the convergence of the strengths of the East and the West, who can match China in the world?

Song Biao thought about this, and there was a spirit of challenging everything in his heart, as if all his souls were burned in tobacco leaves, and his life was burned to the end, just for the brilliance of this life in his life.

At this time, he had already made up his mind to use 20 years to create a greater Chinese empire, to spend 20 years to prepare for a real world war, to lay the foundation for the next few hundred years of the empire's heroic style, and to lay the foundation for the return of the spirit of the Han people.

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Song Biao is a person who needs time to think, and it takes time to gather more wisdom, and he doesn't like to arrange too many ordinary affairs for himself, which can make him think more about new ideas that are much higher than the conventional.

Tranquility is to think far, to be forward-looking, to look at the next 100 years, to create today's prosperous world.

In the Central Palace, he can stay away from trivial affairs more quietly, even if it is such a thing as choosing the third prime minister, he feels that it is not particularly important, because the difference between Ouyang Geng and Zhang Kangren is not particularly big in nature.

In Song Biao's view, Zhang Kangren's true talent and knowledge may not be stronger than Ouyang Xi's, many things are Ouyang Xi's decisions, not Zhang Kangren's achievements, and Ouyang Geng may not be more talented than Liang Dunyan.

These two people are a little worse than Tang Shaoyi.

It's just that Tang Shaoyi is suitable for being a virtuous prime minister of a weak country, not a qualified prime minister of a strong country, and Ouyang Geng is the opposite, as the prime minister of a strong country, he can at least be qualified, which is probably related to Ouyang Geng's perennial life in the United States.

Compared with Ouyang Geng, Zhang Kangren is more suitable to be the governor of a central bank.

Even as a businessman, Zhang Kangren may not be able to achieve much!

"The ruler is long, the inch is short".

Standing on the balcony, Song Biao stared at the Jinzhong Ridge in the north, the ancients said that the mountain is not high, and there is a fairy name, this is really not false at all, a small Jinzhong Ridge is not good-looking, and now it has become the place of the royal garden, and it is naturally famous all over the world overnight.

The north of Admiralty Ridge is Tanzhe Temple, surrounded by mountains on all sides, like nine dragons coiled, Song Biao went to see the scenery twice, at this time he has intended to be buried there after death, no need to build the emperor's mausoleum, build a royal cemetery.

With such a mind, he changed the name of the temple of Tanzhe Temple to Zhenguo Temple, the reason why it is "town" instead of "Ning", precisely because there are too many problems that this empire needs to "town".

He looked there, as if he had seen his final destination, and he felt an inexplicable sense of stability in his heart.

All morning, Song Biao spent almost all morning staring quietly at this window, thinking about those questions that were far higher than reality. It was almost noon, and he was about to arrange his itinerary in the afternoon and go to the military headquarters to see the new situation, when Chen Qimei walked in and told him: "Your Majesty, Mr. Rong Xingqiao has arrived, you have explained yesterday, if time permits, you can see him temporarily." ”

"Oh!"

Song Biao then remembered and said, "Okay, let him in." ”

Chen Qimei nodded slightly, and was about to go out to inform Rong Xingqiao, who was guarding outside, Song Biao suddenly remembered something, called out to Chen Qimei and asked, "By the way, have you considered going to the local post to exercise?" ”

"Huh?"

Chen Qimei was a little surprised, and replied instead: "Since the emperor has an order, his subordinates should obey the order!" ”

Song Biao signaled that he was not in a hurry to inform Rong Xingqiao, and said, "I originally wanted to arrange for you to succeed Yuan Jinkai, but now that I think about it, talents are rare, and I plan to arrange for you to go to Shanxi to be the director of the Department of Agriculture." That place in Shanxi, you also know that it is notoriously tricky and eccentric, there are all kinds of intractable things, Wang Shuhan went for two years to make a foreshadowing, and then considered letting Qi Hao deal with more difficult things, but I thought about it carefully, and decided to let you assist Wang Shuhan, you are ruthless and accurate, and Wang Shuhan is a good partner, Qi Hao was transferred to Ili Province to serve as the governor, and the things over there are not easy to deal with, and he needs the local arrogance of the governor of the town like him, who was born in the military. As for the arrangements for you, I am also thinking long-term. ”

Chen Qimei was really overjoyed when she heard this, and immediately thanked the emperor for his grace and cultivation, and then went to notify Rong Xingqiao to come to meet him. Although it is inevitable that the director of a local agricultural department will be demoted from the secretary general of the Inner Court Secretariat, everyone's life always needs a new start in order to go further, and he Chen Qimei is not a careerist?

Rong Xingqiao soon entered the office to meet the emperor, this time, his task was only to report the account, and listen to some of the emperor's thoughts on the consortium in the near future.

Since the First World War, the Far Eastern consortium has reaped a lot of money like the empire, and the rate of return is amazingly high, not only selling arms, but also monopolizing more than 95% of the rubber in the international market, and making a lot of money, especially the rubber, nickel, manganese and oil sold to Germany through the Netherlands, which are worth thousands of gold and are directly exchanged for gold.

Before the war, they cashed out military stocks and silver assets such as Vickers Company and Winchester, and the capital and cash in their hands were even more powerful, and after the war, they bought out the mining rights of the Baku oil region and the refineries of local Russian capital in Azerbaijan through the confiscation of Russian assets, and the annual profit was not less than 100 million US dollars, and the copper and gold mines in Papua New Guinea and the nickel mines in New Caledonia were all handled by the Far Eastern consortium, although the Far Eastern consortium also bought the three billion yuan national bonds of the imperial political axe in one go to pay for military expenses. But it changed hands and won the rights to mine the Kuznetsk coal mine, the Chita iron ore mine and the Tomsk oil zone through competitive bidding.

For the Far Eastern consortium, bidding is just a process, and other domestic companies cannot compete with such a large scale of investment, and foreign companies that can compete cannot recover their strength for the time being.

Naturally, there are also people in China who propose anti-monopoly sanctions against Far Eastern consortiums, just as the United States did with Standard Oil, but who can really support it? Not to mention that the congressmen dare not really support such a proposal, even if they dare to propose, under the trade-off, the empire still needs a world-class chaebol like the Far Eastern chaebol very much, without the Far Eastern chaebol, the empire may not be able to have today, without the Far Eastern chaebol, where will the empire go to create the largest and most advanced metallurgical group in Asia, where to build a shipyard that can build dreadnoughts, where to create an automobile, aircraft, electrical, and locomotive industry that is comparable to that of Europe and the United States, and where to create a strong and prosperous Chinese machine tool industry?

The Far East is not yet a crisis for the empire, but a place of hope for the empire.

A Far Eastern consortium is basically equivalent to half an empire.

Of course, the Far Eastern Consortium is also gradually changing its business scope, from the monopoly of soybean exports in the past to today's six franchised exporters to compete together, from the past to the Far Eastern Commercial Bank as the leader, said to gradually change to the Far Eastern Bank and China International Commercial Bank as the leader, according to Song Biao's meaning, the Far Eastern Bank will be used as a symbol of the times, slowly erasing the symbolic status of China's chaebol giants, but the China International Commercial Bank, which has been privatized and Chinese-funded by the companies of the Far Eastern Consortium, is gradually becoming a new financial giant. And ostensibly keep a distance from the Far Eastern consortium.

Far East.

This brand will slowly disappear from the public eye, in order to survive for a longer time, Far East Automobile Company was reorganized into China Automobile Corporation, Far East Iron and Steel, Far East Shipbuilding, the core industry company of the empire will be gradually renamed China United Iron and Steel Corporation, China United Shipbuilding Industry Corporation, and there will be fewer and fewer enterprises that will continue to maintain the name of Far East in the future, and there will be only six super-large enterprises left: Far East Commercial Bank, Far East Bank, Far East Shipping, Far East Railway, Far East Petroleum, and Far East Weapons. Even the lucrative Far East Textiles and Far East Mining, which were lucrative at this time, would gradually change their names and stand on their own from the Far East.

Because the Far East is too big, its very existence will terrify the world and its people, and it must exist, so it must learn to hide.

The First World War really made the Far Eastern consortium earn a lot of money, Rong Xingqiao, as the chief director, can set up a small bank in Shanghai with annual dividends, only in the military industry, oil industry and rubber industry investment in the past six years to earn more than a billion pounds of huge profits, other indirect benefits are also extremely considerable, Germany's six-year vacuum in the international market has made the Far East consortium in the six fields of oil, chemical, dyes, textile, machinery, electrical have made unprecedented breakthroughs, and even exported to the British and French markets, Such a thing was unimaginable in the past.

War is indeed a terrible thing.

Although the technological foundation of the Far East is basically still derived from Germany, it may not be easy for the German industry to recover in the past few years, and the Far East is also actively taking advantage of such a cycle to continuously improve the production process, efficiency and technical level, taking advantage of the world war in Britain, France, Russia and other countries to recruit experts, at home and abroad there are such institutions as the Far East Technical Research Bureau, and now it is extending its hand into Germany, recruiting a large number of experts and first-class engineering and technical personnel in Germany.

In addition to external recruitment, under the call of the whole country to learn all kinds of industrial Germany, the Far East itself has also made great efforts in the cultivation and accumulation of talents.

Capital is the foundation of a country, and it is also the original sin and source of power for a country's progress and development.

If the gap is very large, it is really not something that can catch up in more than ten years, but at the beginning of the twentieth century, the gap in technology and craftsmanship is really not particularly large, even Russia, Japan, Austria-Hungary were able to build super-dreadnoughts before World War I, and now even China can build them, which in itself is enough to explain a lot of problems.

The empire's industry developed so fast that it surprised the world.

The machine tool industry, which has transferred technology from the United States, Germany, France and other countries, has finally come to fruition with the unremitting investment and support of the Far Eastern consortium for ten years, and can not only take advantage of tariff clauses and foreign competition in the domestic market, but also export in large quantities.

At the end of World War I, the machine tools used in France to produce firearms and ammunition were basically imported from China, which is a bit unimaginable.

Song Biao basically only plans to live until the end of World War II now, smoke if he wants to, strive to live chic, live happily, looking at the report submitted by Rong Xingqiao about the core industries of the Far East Consortium, Song Biao is not happy in his heart.

He lit a cigar very happily and read the report happily, and the hearty feeling in his heart, not to mention how happy he was.

After a rough look, he and Rong Xingqiao exclaimed: "China has such a foundation, why worry that the empire can't climb to the top of the world?" ”

Rong Xingqiao is an imperial chaebol oligarch comparable to the imperial prime minister outside, controlling the economic lifeline of the empire, and his words are so strong that even the imperial prime minister Tang Shaoyi has to swallow his anger, but in front of the emperor, no matter how powerful he is, he is just an agent.

He also replied with a smile that was not humble: "Your Majesty, the empire has a vast territory of 18.9 million square kilometers, 40,000 people are working hard, and the emperor is in charge of all the people's ministers, etc., and the country should be prosperous, strong and healthy." ”

Song Biao hummed hummed unashamedly, and said: "The situation here in the Far East is really good, I don't have anything to tell for the time being, if there is anything, let's wait for the annual meeting at the end of the year." It just so happens that you are here, and now I will talk about one thing, the choice of prime minister is almost decided, but no matter who becomes prime minister, the next political axe will inevitably be tougher. There are generally two bills to be forcibly passed, one is our cliché "Land Restriction Act", and the other is the "Labor Protection Act", you must organize the trade unions in advance, formulate a suitable employee welfare system in advance, not only to comply with the national minimum wage standard, but even higher, so as to attract the best workers. The Far East should set an example on the issue of trade unions, actively participate in the building and organization of trade unions, trade unions should have more mutual aid qualities, and enterprises should also give more help and care through trade unions when workers are in difficulty, and should not force trade unions and enterprises to become antagonistic institutions. Of course, the state will also restrict the rights and responsibilities of trade unions when enacting legislation, and trade unions must not be allowed to make unreasonable trouble, lest they eventually collapse and drag down all enterprises. This is the general trend of the world, do not confront it, take the initiative to meet the challenge, and even do it with sound and characteristics. ”

Rong Xingqiao immediately said: "Please rest assured, the Far East is not only the pillar of the empire, but also of course a model for the empire, in fact, it is also a good thing to do this, the workers are comfortable, and the enterprise can run smoothly, blindly exploiting the workers is obviously not a reasonable and long-term thing." In addition, widening the gap between treatment and other companies is also conducive to the Far East's recruitment of talents from all walks of life. ”

Song Biao thought for a while and said: "I still say that an enterprise must have a human touch, even if it is not a worker's home, it must be a social institution that workers are willing to struggle and work hard together, capitalists want to return on investment, enterprise managers must realize the value and ideals of life, and workers must have a taste and happiness in life, which is the real good enterprise and the way to survive for a long time." After you go back, you should think about the meaning of the year, do things beautifully, have the characteristics and traditions of our Chinese, and give out red envelopes every New Year's holiday, and be lucky. In the past, we always learned from foreign countries, and it was very good to learn from foreign countries, and the political axe still had to promote Westernization, but we also had to retain more of our Chinese traditional culture, our own philosophical ideas, our own cultural concepts, and our own way of life and management. Taylor has a set of scientific management ideas, this thing is a good thing, but we are based on this, but also have the idea of human management, the combination of East and West, we in the countryside to take care of a long-term worker to buy wine and roast meat during the New Year's holidays, I feel that this kind of human harmony, respect for the old and love for the young, the humanistic concept of corporal etiquette, is of great help to the Chinese enterprises themselves, the key is how we absorb this humanistic view into the management and operation of the enterprise. ”

Rong Xingqiao nodded again and again, and proposed: "The emperor may wish to write an editorial, so that the Chinese industrialists can be enlightened, this matter is beneficial to the country and the people, and it is a great benefit!" ”

After being reminded by him, Song Biao felt that he really wanted to write this editorial, so he said: "This thing can't be written by others, so you can write a draft according to my intentions." ”

Rong Xingqiao agreed.

There are many editorials of the emperor, but 90% of them are written by others, and only those 10% are the emperor's thoughts, but these 10% of the thoughts are the most important, which is where the value of the full text lies.

It's not early, Song Biao wants to go back for lunch, Rong Xingqiao has served for so many years, and he can be called the big shopkeeper of the royal family, and this is also the first time Rong Xingqiao has come to the Central Palace, so Song Biao invited him to have the imperial meal.

After lunch, Song Biao did not arrange other trips in the afternoon, it is rare for Rong Xingqiao to come over, including Song Biao himself There are still many places that he has not been to, so he and Rong Xingqiao have a visit to the Central Palace, watching and talking while walking.

Song Biao's style is like this, he has rarely made a disposal and decision on a single thing now, most of the situation is in this kind of whole day, or an afternoon of chatting, his thoughts and thoughts on many things are talked to the person in charge, whether it is enlightenment, or advice, whether it is communication, or discussion, his idea is the holy will, that is, is the general direction, the person in charge of all aspects should generally follow this holy will and general direction, flexible work, flexible realization of these ideas and requirements.

As for the rights and wrongs of a specific matter, Song Biao has rarely evaluated them in recent years, giving others more real power and looking more at their performance, rather than strictly requiring others to follow their own decisions.

It's a very reasonable choice.

Just like the Taizu back then, the existence of everything else, thinking about problems, thinking about problems, and proposing the general direction, of course, this general direction cannot be wrong, once it is wrong, it can make the whole country pay a heavy price, and even decades of hard work will be ruined.

Generally speaking, Song Biao's current general direction is that industry is on the right and agriculture is on the left, including industries such as postal services, telecommunications, railways, electric power, and petroleum.

In the field of agriculture, he insisted on implementing the "Land Restriction Act"; in the past, he used taxes to restrict the big landlord class, but now he wants to further use the bill to restrict land annexation; through the maximum restriction on the peasants' ownership of farmland, the political axe forcibly buys the excess part of the cultivated land from the landlord class, and gradually disperses the land to the peasant households through the method of renting first and then selling.

Song Biao wanted to do this a few years ago, but Tang Shaoyi resolutely disagreed.

The prime minister disagreed, and Song Biao didn't want to change the prime minister, so the matter was shelved, and he decided to support Ouyang Geng this time, precisely because Ouyang Geng decided to forcibly promote the passage of this bill, but Ouyang Geng also had conditions, that is, the limit was not limited.

The so-called upper limit and no lower limit means that the political axe does not guarantee the minimum amount of farmland held by farmers, but only limits the maximum number of farmland, and forest mulberry tea fruit and animal husbandry agricultural land are not included in the restriction clause.

This bill has advantages and disadvantages, the disadvantage is that it will have a negative impact on the large-scale mechanization and industrialization of agriculture, and it is likely that it will be as uncompetitive as French agriculture, and the advantage is that it will force capital to flow to industry, increase the domestic per capita purchasing power, and expand the domestic demand market.

Song Biao did not dare to push this bill easily in the past, because the strength of the landlord class in China was too strong, but now it is different, the strength of industry is stronger, agriculture must make concessions to industry, and those big landlords can also be attacked.

Song Biao didn't need to talk to Rong Xingqiao about the "Land Restriction Act", he talked about some things related to enterprises, asked more about details, and increased his understanding of the industrial level of the empire.

The development of the imperial industry still depends on the efforts of the capitalists, and the political axe must also do its best to support it, improve the social status of industrialists and high-level skilled workers and engineers, promote education on a larger scale, and promote the development of science and technology.

During Ouyang Geng's term as premier, Song Biao planned to launch the "China National Science and Technology Project Research Plan" in the State Administration of Science and Technology, the Central Academy of Sciences, and the Ministry of Science and Industry of the Central Military Department, which was collectively referred to as a simple 201 plan, that is, to promote the empire to become the world's first scientific and technological power in the 20th century.

Affected by the First World War, the progress of the Ministry of Culture and Education's 20,000-person plan is worse than expected, but the total size of Chinese students abroad has also reached 13,000, and the increase in compensation surnames this year is faster, with about 50% of students in the United States, followed by France, only in Russia and Germany, students have been forced to interrupt their studies in the past few years, and there are currently students in European countries, as well as countries like Mexico and Chile, which are mainly to consider some special long-term cooperation. The number of books in the book is still relatively large, accounting for about 10%, this is because it is indeed easier and cheaper to study in the book.

With the re-establishment of diplomatic relations with Germany, the number of students studying in Germany increased significantly in the following years, and in general, German university education still maintains the highest level in the world.

According to Ouyang Geng's plan, he plans to take the initiative to cut part of Germany's compensation to China, and set up the rest as a German study abroad fund, which will save Germany from the outflow of foreign exchange and gold, and will not cause any loss to China, which will be conducive to the recovery of Sino-German relations.

In Britain and France, he also plans to expand the study abroad fund and strive to completely complete the 20,000-person plan during his term of office, and he also considers setting up a special fund to recruit international students from Asian countries to study in China and cultivate pro-China and China-friendly forces in Asia.

Thanks to the environment of the whole world, the rapid development of the domestic economy and the large demand for talents, as well as the refuge influx of foreign intellectuals, the domestic universities and secondary vocational education are very good, the 1540 plan is basically completed in the second five-year plan of Tang Shaoyi's two cabinets, 7 provinces and Zhili Prefecture have implemented nine-year compulsory education, and 21 provinces have completed the popularization of six-year compulsory education.

It is precisely with such a foundation that the empire's 201 plan can be truly implemented, and perhaps in the third and fourth five-year plans, the 201 plan still relies heavily on the assistance of external experts, but it is expected that in the fifth and sixth five-year plans, domestic experts and scientific researchers will gradually reach a higher proportion and level.

Empires take time.

Twenty years is basically enough, and it is only reasonable to use these twenty years to build a century-old foundation of a great empire.

(To be continued)